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In 1555, a slave ship arrived in Santo Domingo loaded with branded sugar crates and branded Black Africans

1555

Household slaves of Captain Gerónimo Agüero Bardecí in Santo Domingo, 1605

1605

A Black African man sold as a slave by French smugglers visiting La Española’s northern coast in 1594 claimed a right to freedom based on his African social status of nobility

1594

In 1568, after serving two female masters for over a decade in Seville, two young female Black slaves born in Santo Domingo were granted freedom by their second master

Nov. 27, 1568

A freed young Black woman from Santo Domingo residing in Seville in 1575 decided to return to the Americas

1575, Nov. 16

Auction of enslaved Africans seized by Santo Domingo’s colonial authorities in 1575 from a Portuguese ship

1575

Comments by a colonial official of La Española on the need for enslaved Black labor around 1568-1572

1568-1572

In 1558 Santo Domingo, the local prison kept slave and non-slave, Black and non-Black, men and women detainees within the same building complex

1558

An enslaved Black man was called to testify in La Española in 1556 and his depositions were incorporated into the inquiry’s proceedings

1556

The authorities of Santo Domingo auctioned the cargo of enslaved Blacks from a Portuguese ship that had arrived without a license in 1555

1555